Donation of instant noodles: The donation led by Myanmar Embassy in Thailand

The low-pressure area over the Southeast Bay of Bengal and the adjoining South Andaman Sea persists. It is likely to intensify into a Cyclonic Storm and is likely to move towards Myanmar.

Therefore, the disaster response mechanisms have been activated under the lead of the National Disaster Management Committee. In doing so, Myanmar citizens in Thailand donated over 1.07 million baht worth of 158,640 packs of instant noodles for those who are likely to face the storm in Myanmar with the participation of the Myanmar Embassy in Thailand.

The donation ceremony was held at the Disaster Management Centre (DMC), Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement in Nay Pyi Taw on Monday. The donated items arrived in Yangon on Sunday afternoon and the director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed over them to the MoSWRR Union Minister and director of the Disaster Management Department of Yangon Region.

Then, the deputy minister for Foreign Affairs on behalf of the donors donated the items to the Union minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement. Then, the Union minister gave a certificate of honour in return. Officials will allocate 30,000 packs of noodles each to Rakhine State and Ayeyawady Region in advance and the remaining will be kept at the central warehouse of the Yangon Region Disaster Management Department and delivered to other places.

Then, National Disaster Management Working Committee Chair Union Minister Dr Thet Thet Khine presided over a coordination meeting on emergency response and management measures of the DMC on the same afternoon at the DMC.

During the meeting, The Union minister proposed that the NDMC Secretary serve as the DMC leader, the MoSWRR deputy minister as the deputy leader, personnel of the Commander-in-Chief (Army) Office as the secretary and the director-general of the Disaster Management Department as joint secretary.

The DMC will run 24 hours and there will be a meeting at 3 pm every day to manage proper measures as quickly as possible. Then, the NDMC secretary MoSWRR deputy minister and representatives of the working committees discussed the establishment of DMC and working processes.